The Rolex Milgauss is one of those watches from the brand that occupies something of a second-tier position in the catalog. If models such as the Submariner or the GMT-Master or the Daytona are the popular kids—the jocks and the prom kings—then the Milgauss model is much more chess club.
It is a watch for serious professionals rather than a sports piece and as such it has never competed in the popularity stakes with those created for more glamorous lives. It has always been quiet and unassuming but highly capable, favoring substance over style.
Like several others in the Rolex family, the replica rolex milgauss watches was built out of necessity. It started life in 1954, at the dawning of the atomic age, and one story of the model’s origins has scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, contacting Rolex directly to request a watch they could wear safely as they tried to unravel the secrets of the universe in the world’s highest energy particle accelerator. Whether or not it’s true, and there is very little evidence of it, it isn’t out of the realms of possibility—it is, after all, a similar story to how the GMT-Master (Pan-Am) and the Sea-Dweller (COMEX) came to be.
The problem CERN boffins were encountering, as were many other scientists, engineers and medical professionals working at the cutting edge of new technology, was electromagnetic fields. High strength magnetism, as you would experience regularly in any of those occupations, can bend and distort the miniscule internal components of mechanical watches. In fact, prolonged exposure to a force measuring just 50-100 gauss (the strength of a fridge magnet) can render an unprotected caliber useless.
Rolex’s solution was to shield the Milgauss’s movement inside a second case, actually a soft iron Faraday cage, that redirected the magnetic energy away from the mechanism.
The first reference of their new piece, the ref. 6543, was indeed tested by CERN and found to be resistant to up to 1,000 gauss, and gave the watch its name; mille being French for a thousand and gauss the unit uk replica rolex watches of magnetic flux density.
That model, which was little more than a prototype, bore an uncanny resemblance to the recently released Submariner save for a distinctive honeycomb-style dial. The twin layers of metal mesh added an extra level of protection.
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